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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Friday, August 16, 2019
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
MEDICARE
Evaluating Medicare Programs Against Saving Taxpayer Dollars
By Hayden Rooke-Ley, Travis Broome, Farzad Mostashari, and Sean Cavanaugh
In this review, we show that the Medicare Advantage program is likely costing Medicare relative to traditional Medicare—and it is certainly falling well short of the 5 percent savings target articulated in the earliest versions of the program (Medicare+Choice). Read More >>
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HEALTH AFFAIRS TIPS AND TRICKSSuggested Terms
Terms appear on a drop-down list as you type into the search box on our website. These are topics Health Affairs assigned to the content, and if you choose the suggestion, the assigned content will appear on that particular topic.
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS
PAST EVENT: COMMUNITY CARE FOR HIGH-NEED PATIENTS
The June 2019 issue of Health Affairs examines how we can recruit, train, and deploy the necessary clinical and nonclinical workforce for older Americans with serious illnesses, and fully integrate family caregivers into care
processes. Get caught up with the event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast.
Get the June PRINT issue.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Wildfires
A recent University of California-Berkeley study discovered new long-term health risks for firefighters combating modern wildfires. In his August 2018 Health Affairs Blog post, Lloyd Dean offers approaches for communities to mitigate the effects of these wildfires.
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